Tagged: thrive

In 2 weeks’ time I’m going offline. We’re moving and we cancelled our contract, then had to stay longer than planned. Now the wifi we’ve been borrowing is going away. The thought of not having the internet, frankly, scares me to death. I admit it, I’m hooked. My website needs me; I have to apply for jobs, look for homes;...

It wasn’t a good start to the week. After a blissful weekend, returning to the office renewed and re-motivated, things went rapidly downhill as the team launched itself into the time-honoured tradition of arguing over who was or was not pulling their weight. The popular and widely played game of “who is having more stress than anyone else?” starts with...

Many of us feel we have to work ourselves into the ground just to feel like we’ve earned some rest. We have come to believe that anything less than perfect just doesn’t cut the mustard. Something here is most definitely out of whack. Finding Plenty is having a siesta. For two days I’ve been trying to squeeze out the new...

Our society teaches us that we can never have enough. It demands that there should be no ceiling to our goals, while also teaching that there is not enough to go around. It teaches that we must fight, and that most of us will lose. Not Enough is a sickness of our time. It leads to destructive, manipulative, controlling behaviour...

Strange things happen when you step out and show the world who you really are. The first thing that happens, if my experience is anything to go by, is that your need to conform doubles in intensity. It’s a kind of inner desperation, a need to know that you’re still actually liked. After all, you’re taking an enormous risk. To...

Since I started on my long, drawn-out mission to go it alone,I’ve been trying to do exactly that: do everything alone. Admittedly, spending money hasn’t been an option for most of this time, but I had this weird idea in my head that I was somehow cheating if I asked for help. Which I did anyway – of course. I...

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